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Guvcview aims at providing a simple GTK interface for capturing and viewing video from devices supported by the linux UVC driver, although it should also work with any v4l2 compatible device.
The project is based on luvcview for video rendering, but ...

Parts of this question comes from the answer in this question: Record from VHS tapes.
We need to make sure that the software is gathering the proper data from the right device. Let's drop a query in the terminal which will let us see how many devices are connected to your computer, which can be used to gather images, use this command in a terminal:
ls -l ...

There is NO option to edit fps in cheese. Cheese just streams direct video input from your webcam.
You mention slow fps during recording, but I'm assuming that the video displayed in cheese even when not recording has the same slow fps, right?
In effect, the fps you see before recording is what you are recording?
If so, I imagine you are recording in your ...

In the habit of Gnome applications, Cheese stores its configuration data in the dconf configuration system rather than in plain files.
To access that, you could use a GUI program called dconf-editor from the package dconf-tools :
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
Cheese uses the /apps/cheese gsettings path for its config (yea, as simple as that):
You ...

I've expirienced exactly the same problems both with cheese and guvcview using Assus N43SN webcam this morning and with bit of research it came out that the issues is related to this one: cheese crashed with SIGSEGV in GI_libc_free().
So installing the missing dependency package gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio solved the problem for me.
To install the package run ...

Edit: It looks like this has been fixed with the latest kernels for 12.10 (3.5.0-26-generic) and 12.04 (3.2.0-39-generic).
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It seems that the latest kernel broke webcams for some laptops. Try this:
Run this command in a terminal to see which kernel you're currently using, and make a note of it:
uname -r
It seems that the last known working kernel for ...

As far as I remember skype has a problem with v4l2 (video for linux 2) and has to use vl41 instead but it doesn't know were it is the solution was to shutdown skype then create a script. In a terminal type or paste
gksudo gedit /usr/local/bin/skype
and add these lines for a 32bit system
#!/bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype
...

The GMA 500 'Poulsbo' has had a history of difficulties. However I found a guide on the Ubuntu Forums that describes itself as the Guide to Get the Best Performace from the GMA 500. The forum thread has over 2.5k posts.
Whilst I'm not sure if this will get Cheese working, this seems to me the best thing to try.

You need GNOME 3 to run Cheese 3.0 while Ubuntu 11.04 has GNOME 2.32. So, what to do?
Wait a few weeks until the GNOME3 PPA has been throughly tested and install GNOME3 alongside to Unity. Then, you can install Cheese 3.0.
Instructions at https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3
NOTE: Do not install the PPA yet. Currently the PPA is ...

Cheese in Ubuntu 11.10 started using the Clutter GUI toolkit, which requires working hardware OpenGL support. Unfortunately, your SiS card doesn't support enough OpenGL to allow Cheese to work. More GNOME apps plan to transition to Clutter over time (we shipped an older version of Totem in 11.10 because the newer version uses Clutter), so this problem is ...

Use guvcview, which is a GTK+ interface for Linux USB Video Class (UVC) devices. It will allow you to make adjustments to the web camera.
To install this in Ubuntu via the terminal, type sudo apt-get install guvcview. Or you can install it via the Ubuntu Software Center or other dpkg-frontends.

I faced similar problem with cheese so I installed GTK UVC Video Viewer. It rich in terms of feature as compared to cheese. You can install it by entering following in terminal:
sudo apt-get install guvcview

I think the answer above is incorrect. I also can not start cheese on my 12.04 setup with an NVIDIA GT240 graphics card. I am using the proprietary driver and the webcam works perfectly with Skype. Camorama does not work either.
I am using 12.04 updated today 18th April. This is Beta 2 updated.
I did a fresh installation on another machine (using the ...

After reading this redhat bugzilla : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047389
it came to the part where the dev team suggested this:
rm ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.x86_64.bin
this worked for me... :)

Download the latest version for Raring from here
Installing..
Go to Downloads or directory where you downloaded .deb file
cd ~/Downloads
Install by executing:
sudo dpkg -i cheese_3.8.2-0ubuntu1~raring1_i386.deb
Be sure that you have installed the dependent packages of Cheese. If you run:
$ sudo dpkg -i cheese_3.8.2-0ubuntu1~raring1_i386.deb
...

I recommend going to Preferences -> Image and changing the Hue level. Simply changing it should set a value to it (In the case there is no default value set). You should know that Cheese has some problems that could come back from one version to another. This is why I have a backup like Kamerka or Kamoso which are found in the Software Center and do not ...

You can try avconv.
According to manpage for the avconv command
avconv is a very fast video and audio converter that can also grab from
a live audio/video source.
There are many options in avconv, but for recording the screen, the command would be like
avconv -f x11grab -s 1024x768 -r 50 -t 500 -i :0.0 ~/Videos/name.mp4
Here,
-f: format ...

I got the same errors, found bug reports everywhere. Did not feel like debugging software to take a snapshot.
I installed guvcview instead by running:
sudo aptitude install guvcview
Running guvcview worked out of the box for my Logitech, Inc. Webcam C200.